Word: slaloming
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...speed-skating officials complained that a Swedish referee had the ice shaved at strategic moments-thereby helping Jonny Nilsson (a Swede) win the men's 10,000 meters. Americans spent $4 to file an official protest when Austrian skiers were allowed to study the men's giant slalom course in comfort, by walking it downhill. (Everybody else had to trudge uphill.) German fans screamed "Schiebung! Schiebung!" ("Fix! Fix!") when judges awarded France's Alain Calmat a spectacular score of 98 points for free-style figure skating, even though he fell down twice and burst into tears...
...WINTER OLYMPICS (ABC, 3-5 p.m.). Men's slalom, ice hockey and men's cross-country relay...
...CHRISTINE and MARIELLE GOITSCHEL, sisters from Val d'Isére, France, poled and skated their way through the ladies' slalom, finished first and second. In third place: Oregon's Jean Saubert, the pre-race favorite. Afterward, stocky Marielle Goitschel, 18, demonstrated that she can handle herself as well off the course as on. Angry at an Austrian policeman who was pushing French Coach Henri Bonnet around, Marielle uncorked a haymaker square on the point...
...expected, Russia was turning the unofficial scoring race into a rout. By week's end the powerful Russians already had five gold, three silver and four bronze medals. After four days of competition, the U.S. had only Saubert's bronze slalom medal to show for its efforts...
...WINTER OLYMPICS (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Ladies' giant slalom, combined ski jump, and toboggan finals...